Example sentences of "gone out [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Poor little thing , must have gone out through the cat door . |
| 2 | He had gone out through the kitchen door . |
| 3 | Well she 'd gone out through the door and the wind took her down the bloody street ! |
| 4 | Having gone out onto the lake as calm as the surface itself , he had caught , as it might be , some of the immovable unsettling darkness and chill which lay for ever imprisoned deep below , like his own too-recent self . |
| 5 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 6 | We 're chasing up two other people who were at that party , and who both seem to have gone out for the day . |
| 7 | It had not been lived in recently it had none of that slight warmth of humanity you find in a dwelling whose inhabitant has gone out for the day . |
| 8 | I phoned Kevin , I 've got Kevin 's mum and dad 's phone number off Dave and phoned at home but he 's gone out for the day or something they said . |
| 9 | The grown ups having gone out for the evening we then kept awake alternately for half-hour shifts by one of the boy 's watches until at long last we were rewarded by the sound of creaking and thumps from the stairs , accompanied by slurry avuncular curses and " shushes " from the aunts . |
| 10 | So they all must have gone out for the dinner . |
| 11 | In 1884 he had gone out to the Sudan with the rank of captain , and had been wounded at the battle of Abu Kru the following January . |
| 12 | If she had not met the man at that particular moment , she would not have gone out to the highway and she would not have met Flynn . |
| 13 | She had gone out to the drug store to get a bottle of milk for Maria 's bedtime cocoa , and when she got back to the suite , Bernie was in her section taking off Maria 's dress . |
| 14 | Well the skipper of the hopper , he get into trouble for that cos he should have gone out to the dumping ground . |
| 15 | Normally he had already gone out to the horses but now she had to face him and she was feeling quite unsure of herself . |
| 16 | That night , she 'd said , ‘ If you 'd come out the Quindale way you 'd never 've got through ; it 's flooded right across the road from Briar Farm to the old water tower , three feet deep , burst water main , ’ and Luke had said , ‘ Yeah , ’ and gone out to the kitchen to raid the fridge . |
| 17 | He had gone out to the pub a couple of times with some old friends and was thinking of taking out a young woman he had met . |
| 18 | She had gone out to the Windmill for ale while he contented himself in the kitchen . |
| 19 | So he turned away from the mirror and walked towards the weak sunlight ; she had gone out to the balcony , it was warm in the September sunshine . |
| 20 | They have given many parties in their time , but on New Year 's Eve they have always gone out to the gatherings of others — sometimes to several gatherings in the course of the evening , and some years separately , not always meeting even for the magic chimes . |
| 21 | She and Nevil were looking after Margaret and Rose as John and Laura had gone out to the theatre for the evening . |
| 22 | Their rabbis , realising that most Jews rarely see the inside of a synagogue , have gone out to the people . |
| 23 | and she 'll go and get the milk out and say I 've just got myself a glass of milk mum , oh right , okay not even aware that she 's gone out to the fridge you know , fair enough we say ah , you do n't do you ? |
| 24 | And when Benn started hitting him with those big shots in the 11th , the textbook should have gone out of the window for the animal instinct to take over but he did n't have it the way I had against Benn and Michael Watson , unfortunately . |
| 25 | Local accountability has gone out of the window ; Ministers no longer even talk about it , because they know that it is not a reality . |
| 26 | We believe that the principle of accountability in local democracy has gone out of the window under this Government . |
| 27 | The other children pulled his leg and generally teased him about what he had seen but the child strenuously defended his story ; somehow the fun had gone out of the adventure and they decided to return home . |
| 28 | Dora had told him that Miss Alexandra was but a month short of her twenty-second birthday and he had gone out of the kitchen , scratching his head in disbelief . |
| 29 | The brashness had gone out of the sunlight , and the air had a chill . |
| 30 | And speak your own language , please : we 'll even teach it to you in our schools to prove how understanding we are , just so long as you do our dirty work for less wages than our own kind are prepared to accept : just so long as you keep yourselves to yourselves , and do n't let your children marry ours , because what we 're all terrified of , so terrified the word 's gone out of the vocabulary . |